The Bane and the Blessed
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Third Sunday of Easter April 26,2020 THE BANE AND THE BLESSED I understand Covid 19 is also known as the coronavirus because the spikes on each virus sphere have little “crowns” on them and the Latin word for crown is “corona.” So I realize that the virus has nothing to do with St. Corona. But of course it does. I didn’t know there was a St. Corona until the pandemic began. I have learned that she is a saint venerated in northern Italy, Austria and southern Germany. She is to be turned to in times of pestilence. If my research is accurate, her relics are in the Basilica of Saints Victor and Corona in Feltre, Italy. It is one of the first regions of Italy cordoned off due to the pandemic. St. Corona was 16 years old when she died a martyr’s death. Tradition has it she spoke in defense of a Roman centurion who had been baptized and was condemned to death as a result. St. Corona recognized that a solitary Christian is not a Christian at all. For the common good we are told these days to avoid social gatherings, keep six feet apart, avoid touching. We are not allowed to visit loved ones in the hospital or nursing home. Weddings have been cancelled. Funerals cannot be celebrated. Teachers no longer can teach students face to face, and perhaps never again those students soon to graduate. Coronavirus has affected everything. But of course the worst virus is anger, fear, despair, selfishness. I don’t at all want to deny or diminish the reality of the coronavirus and what it can do. I do know however that we have the cure for these other poisons. St. Corona knew that love and life must go on. She knew that they will win the day. She knew that in Christ the victory is already won. St. Corona, pray for us. Father John Parr THANKS FROM THE FOOD PANTRY FOR YOUR MARRIAGE The Food Pantry would like to thank the Due to the ongoing spread of COVID-19, many parishioners and community couples and families have been faced with the individuals and businesses who have come challenge of establishing a ‘new normal’ in forward recently to stock up our pantry their daily lives. Whatever your family shelves and fill our freezers and coolers. situation, there is an opportunity to find grace in the Your generosity has been overwhelming, and we are midst of this crisis. You can use this time as an invitation extremely grateful to all of you for serving our to focus on relationships and on building strong family brothers and sisters in need. At this time, we are well- bonds. supplied with just about everything we need to serve Here are a few suggestions on how to use this time our guests. Our numbers have remained steady but well: have not stretched us beyond our capacity to serve Pray Together them. If you know of anyone who has need of our Visit our church. Spend time together before Jesus pantry services, please tell them that we remain open in the tabernacle. He is waiting for you! on Tuesdays and Fridays from 9am to 11am or they Pray the Rosary together at night…even one may contact Carol Reider at 608-526-4424 or decade. If you don’t remember how, google it! [email protected]. God bless you and fill you with Read the bible together. Start with the Gospel of Easter joy. Mark. Build and Fortify Your Relationships Typically we would have collected the Catholic Relief Eat dinner together at the table. No devices Services Rice Bowls and Mite Bowls at the end of allowed. Lent. This year we are asking you to either hold them Make it a habit to be kind to one another and to until we can gather together again or write a check for speak lovingly to one another. the amount you’d like to donate and send it into the Write a mission statement for your family. Decide parish. You can make the check out to SEAS and write together how you want to spend this time with- Rice Bowl or Mite Bowl in the memo line. If you’d like to out wasting it. return the actual Rice Bowl or Mite Bowl and not wait, Have Fun Together please call ahead to make sure someone is in the Do something fun as a family every day – bake a office (526-4424). pie, bring out a board game, get creative with Thank you so much for your support. craft supplies, sing songs, or take a nature walk at a nearby trail. Plan a celebration for feast days – the internet will Making a Spiritual Communion be very helpful here. We Catholics love Just as we are fed physically from the gifts of our celebrations! loving God, we are fed spiritually when we receive the Start building a family photobook. Take some pho- Eucharist. Though we find ourselves at a time when it is tos and plan some home videos. We are living not possible to receive the Eucharist, we are still able to through history, and your family memories will make a spiritual communion. We can make a spiritual be precious. communion using our own words or we can use one of the beautiful traditional spiritual communion prayers, including this one by St. Alphonsus Liguori. My Jesus, I believe that You are present in the Most Holy Sacrament. I love You above Lorraine Atkinson Michele Lindemann Sara (Wozney) Balaker Jerome Malin all things, and I desire to receive Judy Bockenhauer Deanna Mason You into my soul. Since I cannot at Rebecca Chatfield Ken Proctor this moment receive You Paul Collins Bailey Rohrer sacramentally, come at least The Donaldson Family Mary Roerkohl spiritually into my heart. I embrace Bill Druliner Barry Schaller You as if You were already there DeEtte Gillmeister Sascha Stephens and unite myself wholly to You. Sherry Hanson Colleen Tisil Never permit me to be separated June Kukovec Addison Quinn Usitalo from You. Amen. Bob Langer 3rd Sunday of Easter 2 April 26, 2020 3RD SUNDAY OF EASTER READINGS Reading 1 Acts 2:14, 22-33 Then Peter stood up with the Eleven, raised his voice, and proclaimed: “You who are Jews, indeed all of you staying in Jerusalem. Let this be known to you, and listen to my words. You who are Israelites, hear these words. Jesus the Nazarene was a man commended to you by God with mighty deeds, wonders, and signs, which God worked through him in your midst, as you yourselves know. This man, delivered up by the set plan and foreknowledge of God, you killed, using lawless men to crucify him. But God raised him up, releasing him from the throes of death, because it was impossible for him to be held by it. For David says of him: I saw the Lord ever before me, with him at my right hand I shall not be disturbed. Therefore my heart has been glad and my tongue has exulted; my flesh, too, will dwell in hope, because you will not abandon my soul to the netherworld, nor will you suffer your holy one to see corruption. You have made known to me the paths of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence. “My brothers, one can confidently say to you about the patriarch David that he died and was buried, and his tomb is in our midst to this day. But since he was a prophet and knew that God had sworn an oath to him that he would set one of his descendants upon his throne, he foresaw and spoke of the resurrection of the Christ, that neither was he abandoned to the netherworld nor did his flesh see corruption. God raised this Jesus; of this we are all witnesses. Exalted at the right hand of God, he received the promise of the Holy Spirit from the Father and poured him forth, as you see and hear.” Responsorial Psalm Ps 16:1-2, 5, 7-8, 9-10, 11 R. (11a) Lord, you will show us the path of life. Keep me, O God, for in you I take refuge; I say to the LORD, “My Lord are you.” O LORD, my allotted portion and my cup, you it is who hold fast my lot. R. Lord, you will show us the path of life. I bless the LORD who counsels me; even in the night my heart exhorts me. I set the LORD ever before me ; with him at my right hand I shall not be disturbed. R. Lord, you will show us the path of life. Therefore my heart is glad and my soul rejoices, my body, too, abides in confidence; because you will not abandon my soul to the netherworld, nor will you suffer your faithful one to undergo corruption. R. Lord, you will show us the path of life. You will show me the path to life, abounding joy in your presence, the delights at your right hand forever. R. Lord, you will show us the path of life. Reading 2 1 Pt 1:17-21 Beloved: If you invoke as Father him who judges impartially according to each one’s works, conduct yourselves with reverence during the time of your sojourning, realizing that you were ransomed from your futile conduct, handed on by your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold but with the precious blood of Christ as of a spotless unblemished lamb.